Graduate Alumni Publications

I am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese (HarperCollins Publishers, 2025)

Daisy J. Hung, B.A. 2002

Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI (NYU Press, 2025)

Ralina L. Joseph,  Ph.D. 2005

Stewards of the Land: Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West (Justice) (University of North Carolina Press, 2026)

Stevie Ruiz , Ph.D. 2015

Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego (University of California Press, 2025)

Christina J. Carney,  Ph.D. 2016

Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland; Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt (Temple University Press, 2025)

Rebecca Jo Kinney,  Ph.D. 2011

The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States (University of California Press, 2025)
Kit Myers, Ph.D. 2013

I ask about what falls away (Kaya Press, 2024)

Jason Magabo Perez, Ph.D. 2016

Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle (Northwestern University Press, 2024)

Alborz Ghandehari, Ph.D. 2018

Viral World: Global Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Routledge, 2024)
Long T. Bui, Ph.D. 2011

Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production (Temple UP, 2024)
Linh Thủy Nguyễn, Ph.D. 2016

Transpacific Convergences:Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II (University of North Carolina Press, 2022)

Denise Khor, Ph.D. 2008

History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies (Duke UP, 2021)
Ma Vang, Ph.D. 2012

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania (Duke UP, 2019)
Maile Arvin, Ph.D. 2013

The Racial Poltics of Divions: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Monika Gosin, Ph.D. 2009

Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory (NYU Press, 2018)
Long T. Bui, Ph.D. 2011

Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants (University of Texas Press, 2016)
Martha D. Escobar, Ph.D. 2010

Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Rebecca Kinney, Ph.D. 2011

Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
Traci Voyles, Pd.D. 2010

Legitimizing Empire: Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique (University of Illinois Press, 2015)
Faye Caronan, Ph.D. 2008

Salvadoran Imaginaries: Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption (Rutgers 2014)
Cecilia Rivas, Ph.D. 2007 

Black-Brown Solidarity: Racial Politics in the New Gulf South (Univeristy of Texas Press, 2014)
John D. Márquez, Ph.D. 2004

Filipinos Represent - DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr., Ph.D. 2006

Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (NYU Press, 2012)
Lisa Marie Cacho, Ph.D. 2002

Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association
 

Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Lilia Fernández, Ph.D. 2005

Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial (Duke University Press, 2012)
Ralina Landwehr Joseph, Ph.D. 2005

Trafficking Women’s Human Rights (Duke University Press, 2011)
Julietta Y. Hua, Ph.D. 2006

American Pietàs: Visions of Race, Death and the Maternal (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
Ruby C. Tapia, Ph.D. 2002

Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Scholars, Activists, and Artists (State University of New York Press, 2011)
Ashley Lucas, Ph.D. 2006

Interrupted Life: The Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the U.S. (University of California Press, 2010)
Ruby C. Tapia, Ph.D. 2002

Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater (Ohio State University Press, 2009)
Paula Marie Seniors, Ph.D. 2003

Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse (Temple University Press, 2006)
Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr., Ph.D. 2006